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Out on a Limb
Crime drama set in New York City about Mac Swift, an ex-cop who works outside the normal law enforcement routine on cases that are too hot for the standard justice system. In the opener: while still on the force, Swift falls for a call girl.
Writing:
- Dick Wolf
Release Date:
Wed, Mar 13, 1996
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
James McCaffrey
Mac Swift
Emerson St. John
Officer Williams
Season 1:
Crime drama set in New York City about Mac Swift, an ex-cop who works outside the normal law enforcement routine on cases that are too hot for the standard justice system. In the opener: while still on the force, Swift falls for a call girl.
Swift goes undercover to retrieve a young boy from his dangerous, white supremacist father, Stone Paxton, who has taken the child from his ex-wife who he has accused of polluting the boy with her liberal ideas and interracial dating habits. But when Swift's cover is blown, he is forced to do battle with the extremist—first using the information superhighway, then in hand-to-hand combat.
Mac helps a rockstars wife escape his clutches
Swift is approached by Rita Vicks, a beautiful treasury agent concerned over the disappearance of her partner, Bo Maxey, who has neared obsession in his quest to find the Supernote, a perfect counterfeit c-note he believes is being used by the Iranian government.
Mac learns the latest person he is protecting was involved in a bank heist to support I.R.A. terrorist activities
When Mama Em, a neighborhood matriarch and old friend of Swift's father, is gunned down for trying to organize her community against a drug dealer, Swift sets out to help her daughter Sylvie bring the murderers to justice—with hope of saving Juwan, one of Sylvie's prize pupils, from a life of crime.
No Holds Barred"" - A young, pregnant college girl, Allison, enlists Swift to find her missing boyfriend, Palo Montega, the college wrestling star. Swift discovers that Palo's fanatical wrestling instructor, Dillon Brock, has other plans for Palo when he kidnaps him and forces him to compete in an ""Ultimate Fight,"" a caged match that leaves only one contestant standing. Knowing that Swift is getting close to finding Palo, Brock sets a trap for him and Swift becomes Palo's Ultimate Fight"" opponent.
Mac helps a horse breeder not haft to sell out to a business tycoon great(Who is Murdering her horses so she has no choice) repelling seen for mac
When a research scientist, Bud Wertheim, dies by suspicious, but apparently natural, causes, his friend and colleague, Jessie McKenna, enlists Swift to find out how—and why—he really died, uncovering research fraud at an up-and-coming pharmaceutical company poised to make millions on a new cholesterol-lowering drug.
An Amish man, Isaiah Zook, travels to New York to search for his runaway daughter but is quickly overwhelmed by the city. Paterson happens upon the naive Isaiah and introduces him to Swift who quickly agrees to take his case. Swift discovers that Sarah, Isaiah's daughter, is living with a child pornography star, David, who owes his movie producer, Malcolm, a lot of money for drugs. David decides to trade Sarah in exchange for his freedom from Malcolm's thugs—but even David is unaware of Malcolm's plan to sell Sarah into white slavery.
Patterson asks Swift to watch over a women who is somehow involved in his latest case.
Swift and Paterson clash on issues of strategy when cases they are working on collide. Paterson, under pressure from his superiors, may have to place a charge of Swift's in danger to bring down suspects in a series of jewel heists. Swift, feeling a responsibility to help the girl he's been trying to protect and her ex-con boyfriend, may be jeopardizing Paterson's case in the process. Can their friendship survive?
A serial killer gets lose and goes after those who put him away; Swift, Patterson and a criminal profiler.
